Suspension device for use in skinning small animals.



A. G. HEYERDAHLQ SUSPENSION DEVICE FOR USE IN SKINNING SMALL ANIMALS.

I APPLICATION FILED JAN124, 1911.

1,027,335, 1 Patnted May 21,1912.

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COLUMBIA 'PLANQGRAPH 60.,WASHINuTON. D. c.

ALBERT e. HEIYERADAHL, or onr'oRnvILLE, Wisconsin.

, I SUSPENSION DEVICE USE'IN SKINNING SMALL ANIMALS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1912.

Application filed January 24, 1911. Serial No. 604,457. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. HEYER- DAHL, a citizen of the United States, resident of Orfordville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Suspension Devices for Use in Skinning Small Animals; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form. a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the invention on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is an end view of the invention.

The invention has relation to a suspension device or means for suspending small animals, for use in skinning the same, and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts as hereinafterset forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the numeral 1 designates a substantially U-form frame, the rear sup port 2 of which is adapted to abut against and' be secured to a vertical wall. This support carries at each end thereof forward extending normally divergent planular spring jaw members 4, 4, the divergence of which begins approximately at said support and increases toward the outer or free ends of the members. The aw members are provided with tapering free ends 5, 5, of gradually decreasing width, having inward projecting teeth 6, 6. The'jaw members are drawn together upon the work or the legs of the animal by clamp bolts 7, 7 engaging the members in rear of the tapered ends thereof and intermediately of the length of the members.

It is preferred to form the support 2 in sections 3, 3 which are capable of extension with relation to each other. It is also preferred to form the support 2 with oblique ends or corners 3 to which oblique inner ends 8 of the inner of the jaw memscrew-eyes 12, 12, which engage registering perforations of the two arms and hold the device in position upon a fence, the side of a barn or other place. The lapping sections 3, 3 have a sliding adjustment to bring the outward extending arms nearer together or farther apart, to accommodate animals of varying sizes.

In the use of the invention the hind legs of the animal to be skinned are engaged between the tapered toothed portions of the jaws, when the screw-bolts are tightened to bring said jaws together upon the hind legs, which, owing to the space between the two pairs of jaws, are held apart, with the body of the animal suspended in a position removed from the supporting fence or bar, whereby the skinning operation is facilitated. In skinning a small animal, the legs are engaged with the forward smaller ends of the tapered jaws whereby a larger portion of the fur or skin of the legs is made available for use. In skinning a larger animal the legs are pressed .inward between the jaws in engagement withthe larger rear ends of said jaws, whereby a larger clamp ing surface of the jaws comes into use, and the legs of the larger animal will have a suflicient portion of the skin or fur thereof available for use.

The invention is of simple and durable nature, composed of few parts, easily assembled, and will be found of advantage for the purpose in view.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new'and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A hanger, comprising a support adapted to abut against and be rigidly secured to a vertical wall, opposite pairs of forward extending planular normally divergent spring jaw members having rigid connection with said support, the divergence of said memin rear of the tapered ends and intermedibers beginning approximately at said supately of the length of the members. 10 port and increasing toward the outer ends In testimony whereof I affix my signaof the members said jaw members having ture, in presence of two witnesses.

tapered outer end portions of gradually de- ALBERT GI HEYERDAHL. creasing width, having inward-projecting Witnesses:

teeth, and means for closing the jaw mem- H. C. TAYLOR,

bers upon the work engaging the members ETHEL COMPTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

